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Maya Bejerano Author

One of Israel’s leading poets, Maya Bejerano has published fifteen poetry collections; a children’s book; two collections of short stories, and a novel. Her poems have been set to music, and her work has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, and Vietnamese. Her volume, The Hymns of Job and Other Poems, a Lannan Translation Selection, was published by BOA Editions in 2008, and a number of her poems appear in Poets on the Edge—An Anthology of Contemporary Hebrew Poetry (SUNY Press, 2008). Bejerano participated in numerous poetry festivals in Israel and abroad, and was a visiting poet at Harvard University. Among her awards are the Prime Minister Prize (1986; 1994), the Bernstein Prize (1988), the Bialik Prize (2002) and the Yehuda Amichai Prize (2016). Bejerano holds a B.A. in literature and philosophy from Bar-Ilan University, and an M.A. in library sciences from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She lives and works in Tel Aviv.